Just how fast was Steve Redgrave rowing?

in faroe islands we are the best at rowing!!!!

Great stuff - suggest really keeping your hands moving around the back end and getting them out and over your knees before you start bending your legs and coming up the slide. That way you are up on the balls of your feet as the seat moves up and much more set in a strong position to squeeze back from the front

From what I could tell you were using a higher drag resistance than what is used in competition... which basically means for each row repetition you're having to put more effort in.

Clapsing 🤣🤣🤣

honestly, pretty solid time, coming from a junior rowing national champ (said fuck to rowing right after), for me to most alien result is kipchoge, or some tdf cyclists

This is fucking hiliarous !

i forget where i read it, its apocryphal, but "Rowing is the act of strategically suffocating oneself to propel a boat for six minutes."

What drag factor are you using for this?

What resistance level do you set it for these tests buddy?? Ive just started rowing and absolutely love it. Low impact and can absolutely killnyour legs with sprint and recovery interval training.

Great effort, man!

Just a little work on technique and you could eazilly get under 6 15

love the rower, its a real torture machine, the burn really is something else.!!
Good effort!

awesome!

6'24 Is very very good time for a non-rower , congratulations ! And we can see the pain at the last 500m, not everyone can do this. 👏
Did you try to do better since the video? lol or is it just too painfull ?
I used to row and I hatted this machine 😭🤣

The rolling onto the ground bit is so relateable. I did rowing in high school and it felt like a warzone after 2ks with everyone collapsing or vomiting. I remember one time wobbling out of the building after one and forgetting there was a 3" stepdown and my knees just buckled. Knowing a 2k was coming up made me dread the days leading up to it.

Rowing on the water was amazing, though. Have a lot of great memories rowing out in calm weather and having to come back with choppy waves, people 'catching crabs,' oars popping out of oarlocks in the last warmups before a race, and taking little nap breaks with everyone leaned back on each other waiting for races to start. Good shit but the hardest workout I've ever done.

"Slightly above average" in what world?
The world where people took up eugenics instead of TV?

As someone happy to do 8minutes, this is hilarious

Rowing machines usually have 10 or so resistance levels. Does that matter (e.g., does the distance calculation take that into account), or is there an official level when doing a 2km or whatever assessment?

Really tough. Well done I must say. I've been on ergo's with Redgrave on a machine next to me in the same room, likewise Pinsent et al. Steve was nuts. His work level at times was insane. These guys are in a different league to top club rowers. Friend of mine rowed in Olympic 8. He's around 60 now and still capable of beating most 30 - 40 year old club rowers. Part power and body conformation, part technique, part will power and a lot of insanity to push the body beyond sensible endurance 🙂